Writing a critical text about geopolitics
Budget: €8 – €30 EUR
The task is:
Mandatory Reading: Huntington, S. P. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs, 22–49.
Write a critique of Huntington’s influential argument of the “Clash of Civilizations”, drawing on the conceptual and analytical tools you have learned from this course. You may choose to build your critique around a current geopolitical topic of your choice to answer the following question: How are Huntington’s views of geopolitics and the other forms of geopolitics discussed throughout the semester interconnected with practices of geopolitics across the globe today? Make sure you use at least four critical academic sources, both from the suggested readings below and your own selection.
Suggested readings:
The following readings can all be found in a special issue of Foreign Affairs, edited by Rose, G. (2013), titled The Clash at 20: What did Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ get right and wrong, and how does it look two decades later?: Introduction (1–2); Ajami (28–36); Mahbubani (37–41); Bartley (42–46); Binyan (47–50).
The essay should be of 1400 +/- 10 % words.
Current geopolitic topic: conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Mandatory Reading: Huntington, S. P. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs, 22–49.
Write a critique of Huntington’s influential argument of the “Clash of Civilizations”, drawing on the conceptual and analytical tools you have learned from this course. You may choose to build your critique around a current geopolitical topic of your choice to answer the following question: How are Huntington’s views of geopolitics and the other forms of geopolitics discussed throughout the semester interconnected with practices of geopolitics across the globe today? Make sure you use at least four critical academic sources, both from the suggested readings below and your own selection.
Suggested readings:
The following readings can all be found in a special issue of Foreign Affairs, edited by Rose, G. (2013), titled The Clash at 20: What did Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ get right and wrong, and how does it look two decades later?: Introduction (1–2); Ajami (28–36); Mahbubani (37–41); Bartley (42–46); Binyan (47–50).
The essay should be of 1400 +/- 10 % words.
Current geopolitic topic: conflict between Russia and Ukraine.